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Free Yourself from the Bad Habits, Compulsions, Feelings, and Attitudes That Hold You Back
By Milton Cudney, PhD & Robert Hardy, EdD
ISBN: 0-06-250197-6
We are each of us presented with a continuous stream of new moments in life, moments in which we are called upon to exercise choices. Each of these choices can either lead to a Self-Defeating Behavior or to a more positve behavior that affirms and honors our existance.
This book from 1990 will give you terrific insights into how Self-Defeating Behavior's are created in our lives -- usually based upon faulty conclusions that we developed about ourselves and our relationships in the past -- and how these nasty bad habits keep going round and round to prevent us from ever making any real progress. These behaviors originated as reasonable defenses against fearful threats or painful emotional situations in our early life and then continue grinding along far beyond the point where they've outlive their usefulness.
Cudney and Hardy, practicing psychologists, offer a thorough explanation of those attitudes and actions that may have worked for us at one time, but ultimately cycle into adult behaviors that backfire. Self-defeatists, they claim, harbor mythical fears that stifle creative thought. This causes faulty conclusions which continue to perpetuate the destructive cycle. SDB's are the mechanics of behavior through which our toxic shame and self-hatred express themselves.
(Review posted by an Amazon.com customer)
What is your life like? Is it a relentless procession of empty days, an endless cycle of meaningless, frustrating work and unrelaxing sleep? Do you repeat the same pattern of joyless days and empty nights ad nauseam? Has your life become an arduous and repetitive ordeal? Are you acting on misguided choices, doing and saying things that virtually guarantee dissatisfaction and unhapppiness?
If you answered "Yes" (or even "maybe") to any of those questions, have I got good news for you... this is the best book I have seen that specifically addresses how we can reclaim our mental, emotional and spiritual power from the traps we ourselves have built. Self-Defeating Behaviors is a truly phenomenal work.
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